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印表機 vs 打印机

printer · Different wording

台灣 · Taiwan
印表機ㄧㄣˋ ㄅㄧㄠˇ ㄐㄧ · yìn biǎo jī

大陆 · Mainland
打印机 dǎ yìn jī · ㄉㄚˇ ㄧㄣˋ ㄐㄧ HSK 6 →

What differs, and by how much

Different wording The two terms share 印机 in their simplified forms but are different words. In Taiwan the standard term is 印表機; on the Mainland it is 打印机 - both point at “printer”.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionaries record 印表機、打印機 for this concept. The Mainland standard is among them - the difference is which form each side makes the default.

打印机 is HSK 6 vocabulary on the HSK 3.0 list.

Pair source: LinZi’s curated MOE-vs-HSK comparison table.

Side by side

	Taiwan · 台灣	Mainland · 大陆
Written form	印表機	打印机
Reading	ㄧㄣˋ ㄅㄧㄠˇ ㄐㄧ yìn biǎo jī	dǎ yìn jī ㄉㄚˇ ㄧㄣˋ ㄐㄧ
Senses	printer	printer
Syllabus	—	HSK 6
MOE records	印表機 · 打印機
Dictionary	not in the LinZi dictionary	entry →
Audio	—

In context

“打印机” in a sentence

我昨天买了这个打印机。

I bought this printer yesterday.

Nearby pairs

開啟 ↔ 打开to open 電訪 ↔ 打电话to make a telephone call (generally as a representative of a company, school or agency etc 列印 ↔ 打印to print 吊點滴 ↔ 打吊瓶to put sb on an intravenous drip

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